Steve Freebairn
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There are newer versions of the drivers for the RTX100 that have to be used with Premiere Pro, If you are using PPro 1.5 then you need drivers 6122. They are available from matrox.com
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To answer your question, the HVX200 would produce the best looking images. The HDV that the JVC is going to give you will only contain a 25 mbps data stream. The HVX200 will give you a 100mbps data stream. If you need any overcranking or undercranking the HVX200 will also be a lot better. The only problem that you’ll have with the hvx200 is storage for all of your footage, but since you aren’t filming until next spring, just buy Focus Enhancements portable HDD. You’ll need a huge storage drive on your computer, I’d go with at least 1tb of Raid 5 storage space. That’d be enough for a 10:1 ratio of footage for a 90 minute feature.
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You might be doing Two pass Variable Bit Rate encoding, in that case it does go through the footage twice. If you want it to only go through once, you should be able to set it to 1 pass vbr or just cbr, both of these will only go through once. VBR is useful if you have to compress your video alot, if you are only putting 1 hour onto a DVD then CBR will be just as good, but a lot faster.
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I’d go with a Glidecam 2000 Pro. I love mine! The smooth shooter makes it even better though, but that would break the bank.
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I use hundreds of stills in Premiere 1.51 with my Matrox RTX100 and I’ve never had a similar experience. The only problems that have really been troublesome have come when the RTX100 gets too hot. Sorry to hear about your problem.
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Sorry I didn’t really clarify what I was trying to say, I was just hoping that someone would say that they knew of a device that would transfer the uncompressed hd-sdi signal to something like DVCProHD and then record that 100Mbit stream to a hard drive. I know that no portable HDD could accept the uncompressed stream.
If I were working inside all the time within range of a capture deck I’d prefer to go with the H1, but since I do a lot of events on location, it just wouldn’t be worth having to take an entire system just to capture the stream, but I still love Canon and hope to be able to do some shoots with one in the future. It is a sweet camera, don’t get me wrong, I just wish that it didn’t compress the image down to a 25mbps stream on tape.
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Yeah, get the new Panasonic P2 camera and then use the overcranking/undercranking feature to record at 25 fps when you need Pal. It might actually work, and it can do 4:2:2
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As mentioned, the easiest way right now is to either use the second “head” of your display card to drive an HDTV, or if you have multiple monitors to get another display card to run the hdtv. The reason why you can’t monitor your video on an external monitor is because the Z1U and all of the HDV cameras right now only accept DV or HDV signals. Premiere uses Cineform’s codec to make editing a better experience and to also cut down on Native HDV compression problems. If the camera could understand Cineform’s codec then it could display out to a tv, but that almost guaranteed won’t ever happen. To display out through a camera you either have to edit hdv natively or wait until they have a computer fast enough to do realtime conversion to hdv during playback.
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Black Magic has there specs on their website for what you need, but basically, any of the companies that were listed are going to have their own version of a DVCPRO HD Codec. You don’t have to get a mac to edit it, you just need a add in card that can handle it. I’d personally go with a Black Magic card, just check out which one has the connections that you need and want. The reason why I say that is because they have a lot of different models to choose from. HDV isn’t going to be as good DVCPro HD footage for slow motion because it is heavily compressed. If you overcrank in the camera (if that function is available, or even just shoot 30p) then your slow motion will look better, also, high shutter speeds tend to make slow motion flicker more. Good Luck
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Another way to do this that would be really cool is to do it with Encore and make them Subtitles. If the pictures change at a given interval, say every 6 seconds, then you could create a text file with the following format
1 00;00;00;00 00;00;07;00 Baby with Dad
2 00;00;07;01 00;00;14;01 Little Boy with MomDo this in notepad and save it as a txt file. Then in encore you can import subtitles and it will lay them out for you on your timeline.
Pros: The user can turn them on or off.
Cons: You might not have Encore.Hope this helps